Improvement in egg-carriers



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E. BARNETT & 'v v Egg-Carrier s.

' Patentedlan.19,1875.

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' WITNESSES v Attorneys THE GRAPH"! CD, FI- I OTO'LITH.3S & "vi PARK PLACE, MY.

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UNITED STATES i EPHRAIM BARNETT ANDWILLIAM H. GARRETT, OF' NEW oonconn, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN EGG-CARRIERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,824, dated January 19, 1875; application filed August 1, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EPHRAIM BARNETT, and WILLIAM H. GARRETT, of New Concord, in the county of Muskingum and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Egg-Carriers and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a perspective view of our egg-carrier. Fig.

'2 is a sectional view of the same; and Figs.

3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, are detail views.

This invention has relation to egg-boxes in which are used celled trays made of pasteboard, to contain the eggs; and the novelty consists of an egg carrier composed of sheets of corrugated pasteboard, provided with slots cut through the lower angles of the corrugation and extending to half their height, in connection with dividing-strips having angular converging slots, whereby alternate halfcells are formed, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a piece of pasteboard of suitable length and breadth, which is bent to form angular cor- Through the lower apexes of the corrugations a, and at a proper distance apart, a number of angular vertical slots, to, are cut, extending preferably half the length of the inclined surfaces thereof, into which slots are to be placed, dividing cell-walls B, through the upper portion of which angular slots 1) are cut, their apexes downward, and at a distance apart equal to the distance between the apexes of the corrugations. The slots bextend downward not more than half the width of the dividing-wall strips B.

If the dividing-strips B be now inserted into the slots a of the corrugations a, the

apexes thereof being at the middle of the space between the apexes of the slots 1), adjacent to each other, the said strip may be pushed down into the position shown in Fig. 6, whereby half-cells c c, of an angular shape, will be formed alternately upon the upper and upon the lower surfaces of the tray, in such a manner that, when three or more such trays are used, the point of an egg placed in one of the half-cells will be contained between the points of two eggs in half-cells upon the adjoining tray; hence all the space occupied by the series of cells will be filled with eggs, excepting what is consumed by the thickness of the pasteboard.

We have ascertained by actual experiment that by this arrangement of the half -cells, thirty-six dozens of.eggs may be packed in a space which will accommodate only thirty dozens where the eggs are packed side by hi le, one beneath the other, in the egg-trays.

With a view to still further economizing space, we may cause alternate trays to be made somewhat shallower than the intermediate ones, in order that their cells may more accurately conform to the obtuse ends of eggs, by which means a greater number of trays may be used than when the angular bottoms of the cells are of the same depth.

The bottom and top trays of a series we have caused to be provided, the former with a substantial bottom, E, and the latter with an equally serviceable lid or top, F, the said bottoms and tops being rigidly secured to their respective trays, whereby they are greatly strengthened.

It will be seen from the above description that we have constructed the cells of our llllproved tray to contain only the half of an egg, its other half being received in a cell of another tray, whereby, when a chest of eggs is to be unpacked, a sufficient portion of the egg will be left exposed when the upper tray is removed, to permit of its being safely taken from the tray.

- We are well aware that hexagonal halfcells formed above and below a diaphragm in an egg-tray, so that each tray will contain the upper half of one series and the lower half of the next series above, the eggs in the various trays being one immediately above or below the other in the same vertical plane, are not new; hence we do not wish to be understood as claiming such invention broadly.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In an egg-carrier, the sheets A, having the A'IENT CFFICE.

slots a cut through the lower angles of the have hereunto subscribed our names in the corrugations to the extent of half the height presence of two witnesses. of the corrugations in combination with the dividing-strips B, having angular slots 1) con-. verging toward the top, as described, whereby alternate half-cells are formed in the manner Witnesses: described and shown. WM. B. Form,

In testimony that we claim the above we SANUEL HINEs. 

